Royal Adelaide Show Grand Champion 5 years Running!

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About Us

In 2001, Kurt Walter joined up with Sanders Seed Cleaners who has been in the industry for over 30 years. Kurt and his partner Merey Colquhoun started up Walco Seed Cleaning in 2005 and created a diverse business in the seed cleaning industry within South Australia.

We have built a team of keen hard working players to service both regular and new clients.

Today they have several machines actively travelling throughout the state and even occasionally interstate to help out our farmers.

Our Services

Seed Cleaning

Seed Cleaning or Harvest Cleaning is done to value add to harvested grain. Cleaning out of spec grain to improve quality will also increase the dollar value of your grain and takes out the stress of possibily having a load rejected at the receival site.

Seed Dressing

Farmers use large section of their home-grown seeds for next sowing. These seeds are often un-treated. Untreated seeds are prone to fungal infections, diseases and insect invasion. This can affect the overall output. Farmers often lose out the opportunity of maximizing the potential of crops because of untreated seeds. One of the best ways to get maximum returns on your efforts is by professionally applied seed dressing.

Why Walcoseed

Experience

For over 13 years, Walco Seed Cleaning, located in the Balaklava area of South Australia, has been providing seed cleaning and grading services to Yorke Peninsula, Gawler & Barossa Valley, Lower & Mid North, Clare & Gilbert Valleys, Wakefield and the Adelaide Plains.

Increase Profits

We specialise in getting the best seeds so you can get the best crop. This means you get the best return on your investment through the process of seed or grain cleaning.

Grand Prize Performance

At the 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Royal Adelaide Show seed graded by Walco Seed Cleaning not only received 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize but also the Grand Champion in the pulse seed category. Expertise, experience, and going the extra mile for our customers pays off!

Family-Owned Business

We are a family owned business that keeps all profits within our local rural farming community.

Satisfaction Guaranteed

High on our list of priorities is customer satisfaction, which is why Walco Seed Cleaning founder, Kurt Walter, spends time with you from the initial contact point until the job’s done, to ensure you are happy with the service we provide before and after the job is finished, each and every year.

We Come to You

We provide a grain cleaning and grading service using a variety of modern mobile seed grading units with a capacity of up to 23 tons per hour. Thus, we can give you the most superior service in your own property.

Our Happy Clients

We’ve been using Walco Seed Cleaning for three years now and we had them do our pickling and then cleaning. They have the latest in their machines; does an excellent job. Very good people to get on with. Nothing’s too much trouble. They’ve never failed us with a job. We can definitely recommend them.

– Brenton

Our Guarantee

Walco Seed Cleaning will remove all problem straws from oats. No more blockages or missed rows at seeding time!

30 Day Guarantee

Walco Seed Cleaning will guarantee that you will be happy with the end result of quality graded seed or its free!

Lifetime Guarantee

Walco Seed Cleaning will remove all problem straws from oats. No more blockages or missed rows at seeding time!

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Latest News

Getting The Best Seed From Your HarvestIncreasing your profitability starts with good quality seed. Note that germination and establishment rates are vastly improved when you save the BIGGEST and PLUMPEST seed.

Leave The Edges Of The Paddock For SaleIt is important to remember that there is a great chance that weeds from the neighbours and road sides can contaminate your seed. Another reason to keep seeds away from the edges is that trees at the margin reduce moisture needed for the growth of crops.

Take Note Of Any Disease That Has Occurred Throughout The Growing SeasonLet’s apply the concept of the saying “prevention is better than cure” in looking after our crops. Things like Loose Smut can re-infect your crops the next season if you don’t take any precautionary action like putting treatments.

Understanding Crop RotationWhen going barley to wheat or from cereal to durum, you need to fill and empty your header box several times to avoid any contamination from other paddocks or varieties.

Legumes Have a Higher Germination Rate When Reaped EarlierA higher than lower moisture content of grain actually adds a buffer to cracking and slitting of seeds.

Weed Seeds Easily Hide in Peas and BeansTo avoid weeds from growing with your peas and beans, you need to do a proper and thorough check, or better yet, just do seed cleaning. The cost of sprays and weed competition can easily outweigh the cost of cleaning.

For Best Protection, Only Give Your Seed Registered Products As TreatmentAgain with the expression “Prevention is better than cure”, you have to take note of any issues in your crop’s health for planning next year’s crop. Using registered and trusted products for your seed provides better protection for your crop and your investment.

Stored Seed Should Be Kept CoolNote that when reaping on hot days, stored heat in a bin will reduce the germination rate of the seed, so you need to keep the lids of the silos open where possible. You can also move the grain when the ambient temperature is cool specially when storing before seed grading.

Storing Seeds For More Than a MonthIn storing seeds for more than a couple of months before grading and treating, use a registered IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) insecticide to dress your seeds against weevil.

When Using a Seed GraderAlways use a professional seed grader with a proven reputation guaranteeing improved results and return on investment.

If you want to know more just click on my website. Feel free to give me a call. Details are down below. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you on the next video.

Hi! It’s Kurt, Walco Seed Cleaning. Another question I get asked is, how long is it going to take to clean my grain?

0:13 Essentially, that’s how many ton an hour can we do through the machines. Basically, we’ve got two machines that we use for seed grading. We got a combination of other machines to help us clean as well. We’ll show you in another video.

0:26 Predominantly, two machines, the one behind me you can see in the video, that’s our semi cleaner. That one has a capacity of generally around about 15 ton an hour on doing seed work. We can harvest clean then we can run it through it at about 20 ton an hour.

0:45 The other machine, the Westruck, we call it, that one has a capacity of about 23 tons an hour for harvest cleaning and doing seed work. We generally run around 15, 16, 17 ton an hour depending on the sample. Both of them do a good job. We pickle at the same time about the very end of the process for doing your seed.

1:10 We can apply a combination of pickles as well, not just the one product but anything up to about five even six products we have at some stages. Basically, if you work on that sort of capacity, the cleanout time is generally around about probably 10 minutes roughly, 15 minutes, depending if we need to change grains between – that’s going from one silo to the next.

1:36 Generally, on average if you’ll allow 10-12 tons per hour doing wheat and barley, that’s sort of the time speed that we’re working on.

If you need any more information or want a booking your seed grading, feel free, give us a call, number’s on the page here and check us out on Twitter and Facebook also. I’ll catch you later and have a good season.

0:14 The why and how you should be doing it, basically, harvest time most people don’t have a lot of time to actually put their grain back in their yards so generally it get to stay out in the paddy.

0:29 But there’s – before you even start thinking about storing grain you want to pick out the best part of your paddy for seed and I’ll explain that in another video a bit more detail.

0:43 So basically, if you store grain and as you can see behind me, we’ve got two silos there at the moment, but if you got a whole row of silos, then what we can actually do is clean from one silo directly into another one even with the silos all in one line, which saves a lot of headaches, and you guys don’t need to worry about trucks all that sort of thing.

1:07 So basically, essentially we need to keep the full one on my left shoulder. That’s right there so we can clean into the one on the other side on my right shoulder. That’s the order that we do it and we can basically just start from one end work all our way down, and of course that means as long as we empty the bins out completely. We haven’t cleaned the bins out as we go we’ll give it a sweep a whole lot for you.

1:37 So, if you need any more information and want to know a bit more detail or situations that you might get stuck into or anything at all, feel free, give us a call. Details are on the page. Even throw a question on Twitter, not quitter, on Twitter. We’re on Facebook as well and feel free, give us a ring if you like. Thanks for tuning in and we’ll catch up with you later. Thanks.